He wanted to do good, but could not. The system would not allow him.
Another model of transparency at work:
Hospital care is nearly 1/3 of overall spend on healthcare in America. At a recent @SenFinance hearing Dr G. Keith Smith, founder of the @SurgeryCenterOK testified that his surgery center “recently performed a tonsillectomy on a child for $3,875 after the family had been quoted $72,000 by a Dallas-area hospital. [The OSC’s] prices are generally half of what Medicare pays hospitals, and less than Medicaid payments to hospitals for the same procedure.”
How does the OSC do it? With publicly posted, transparent prices and without conventional insurance. When employers steer their employees in the direction of the OSC, they save tens of thousands of dollars by flying their employees to Oklahoma and paying directly for the procedures performed there.
@RogerMarshallMD (R-KS) and @Hickenlooper (D-CO) intro the Patients Deserve Price Tags Act. I brought up this bill at the onset of our discussion with @cherrigregg and @Avi_WA . The bill requires hospitals, surgery centers, imaging centers, and labs to report their negotiated rates and cash prices publicly. More than that, the bill would prohibit third-party insurers from concealing from insured employers the prices they are paying. Transparency for employers would be a huge boon to the 60% of Americans under 65 who have insurance provided through employers. The bill would also require that patients receive an itemized bill for services rendered.
We clearly need this fix, because the Executive order we have alone on Price Transparency is not enough. Per @PtRightsAdvoc only 21% of hospitals are fully compliant. What are they hiding? Maybe the fact that they are able to provide care for less.
Here is the whole hearing https://www.aging.senate.gov/hearings/modernizing-health-care-how-shoppable-services-improve-outcomes-and-lower-costs
Eine massgebliche Widerstandskraft der Islamischen Republik Iran liegt in einer religiösen Ideologie, die Leid sakralisiert. Rückschläge werden vom System zum Beweis von Rechtschaffenheit umgedeutet und Katastrophen in politisches Kapital verwandelt. https://www.nzz.ch/meinung/ideologie-ist-die-allermaechtigste-waffe-wie-das-regime-der-ayatollahs-von-der-heiligsprechung-der-katastrophe-lebt-ld.1928078?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026030769a9a881e077e55d2a0302d8
There is so much inside baseball happening within these FDA trials that creates a ripe environment for distortion, allegations of ideology and politics, or other ad hominem attacks. Moreover , those suffering from untreatable chronic disease can easily be co-opted to advocate for companies developing treatments that could have promise but haven’t passed a reasonable bar for efficacy and safety. Someone or some organization has to stand in the breach and demand this standard. Whither critical appraisal?
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In Manchester patroulliert eine berittene Sharia-Polizei. Wäre das auch was für uns, zB um Fastenbrecher zu bestrafen?
It's interesting that Capp and Horton are sponsoring this effort. Both ranked at the bottom of our Council Watch tool because they brought in so much money from out-of-state.
A woman presented with a 1-year history of a crawling sensation on her chin that caused her to scratch the area. An irregular ulcer was present on the right side of her chin, with reduced sensation around the mouth, lip, and chin.
Read the full case details in the Images in Clinical Medicine article “Trigeminal Trophic Syndrome,” from @pennmedicine: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMicm2512031
AI-powered health tools are being adopted by patients, with platforms like ChatGPT Health and others now offering answers to health questions, explanations of postoperative care, and simplified clinical trial information.
JAMA Medical News Director Jennifer Abbasi spoke with Lead Senior Staff Writer Rita Rubin about ChatGPT Health, recently launched by OpenAI, and the expanding landscape of patient-facing generative AI applications.
🎧 Listen now: https://ja.ma/40gyi6Q
US psychiatrist Daniel Morehead disinforms his readers totally about psychiatric drug harms. Most horribly, he argues that antidepressants reduce suicides in young people but the study he quotes shows the opposite! https://bit.ly/4szyyKj. Some psychiatrists should be in jail.
"Ermittlungen gegen @janfleischhauer: Die neue Macht der Denunzianten"
@APosener, @welt
#Meinungsfreiheit
https://www.welt.de/debatte/plus69aadddd7ce3c08db9d243f1/ermittlungen-gegen-fleischhauer-die-neue-macht-der-denunzianten.html
"Reform is not about abandoning cooperation.
It is about redesigning it before crisis once again becomes the organizing principle of global governance."
@bell00david
https://brownstone.org/articles/how-to-build-a-post-who-global-health-architecture/
R to @anish_koka: substack.com/@anishkokamd/no…
Better things to do than spend Saturday morning writing this, but important since there aren't enough actual journalists who can do their job. (link in reply)
Iftar heute 18.18 Uhr (in Frankfurt)
The older I get, the more I understand why roosters just wake up and scream.
Pfizer gave over 13,000 women disabling brain tumors with the their birth control
injections
A massive study of 61 million women finds Depo-Provera (used by 25% of women) increases risk of meningitis by 240%
Criminal enterprise Pfizer now faces a TSUNAMI of lawsuits
https://x.com/NicHulscher/status/2030264302276423720/video/1
The Prasad - FDA timeline
This is an incredible effort. It is many fold better than anything you could read in a top medical journal.
Not just for cardiologists either. A good read for economists as well.
Die Rechtspartei hat am Sonntag bei der baden-württembergischen Landtagswahl gute Aussichten, so stark wie noch nie in Westdeutschland zu werden. https://www.nzz.ch/international/ministerpraesident-wird-markus-frohnmaier-nicht-werden-dennoch-koennte-die-afd-in-baden-wuerttemberg-einen-wichtigen-sieg-erringen-ld.1927882?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026030769a9a881e077e55d2a0302d7
tft he's in the EpFiles is not surprising to pwLC who watched him fund PolyBio (Ep fanatic Melanie Walker runs several of their studies), the Long COVID burial specialists at PatientLed, and the mecfs mafia's propaganda rag TheSickTimes.
He's also a Thiel Fellow. 🏆
#ConnectTheDots #LongCovidAwarenes
Government Meddling in the Doctor-Patient Relationship: Supermajority of Voters Support Health and Medical Freedom, Poll Shows https://brownstone.org/articles/supermajority-of-voters-support-health-and-medical-freedom-poll-shows/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email via @brownstoneinst
Es gibt Spiele, bei denen flunkern ausdrücklich erlaubt ist. Doch beim Kartenspiel «The Lie» lügen die Karten – genau zu 50 Prozent.
https://www.infosperber.ch/gesellschaft/uebriges-gesellschaft/das-spiel-diese-karten-luegen-immer/
Im Erzählband «Die Flucht der Bärin» lässt Joanna Bator ihre Figuren durch eine Landschaft aus Verlust und Horror irren. https://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/nach-dem-krieg-lebten-die-grosseltern-zwischen-fremden-moebeln-ld.1928040?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026030769a9a881e077e55d2a0302d6
Ruqaiijah Yearby, JD, MPH, discusses recent trends in health care markets and their implications for health equity. Listen to the full interview with NEJM Executive Managing Editor Stephen Morrissey (@srm128): https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMdo008435
Keratinocyte carcinomas are skin cancers that develop in the outer layer of the skin.
📄 Learn more about the risk factors, signs and symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment in this JAMA Patient Page:
https://ja.ma/4lgzKQi
From @JAMA_current: Insufficient #sleep among US high school students increased from 2007 to 2023, with the rise driven largely by more adolescents reporting very short sleep durations of ≤5 hours per night.
https://ja.ma/4rhCL42
But yet legislators will vote to keep their campaign coffers full via BigPharma and industrialized medical complex $$$ @USCongress
Supermajority of Voters Support Health and Medical Freedom, Poll Shows https://brownstone.org/articles/supermajority-of-voters-support-health-and-medical-freedom-poll-shows/ via @brownstoneinst
Same day killing. SAME. DAY. Too bad for people simply having a fucking bad day, eh? @joeroganhq
What if you're just having a bad day? This is f-ing INSANE. I wish @jordanbpeterson was OK to diagnose these MAID a-holes all the way to the psyche-ward.
Caveat Emptor, Caveat Lector.
Wrapping gossamer-thin evidence in an aura of AI might be a successful reimbursement strategy, but it does not make it authoritative or convincing!
@drjohnm @venkmurthy @anish_koka
👇🏻
Die nächste Pandemie ist nur eine Frage der Zeit. Ihr möglicher Ground Zero: der Bwindi-Wald in Uganda. Forscher jagten das Virus – bis Donald Trump das Geld strich. https://www.nzz.ch/gesellschaft/virus-x-gefahr-der-naechsten-pandemie-im-bwindi-wald-ld.1927739?utm_campaign=mrf-twitter-NZZ&mrfcid=2026030769a9a881e077e55d2a0302d5
It wasn't about money however. It was about information control.
R to @JesslovesMJK: substacktools.com/sharex/MJw…
"...if some cra-cra eugenicist has access, power and control over the agents that are becoming irrevocably integrated into our systems, then what happens to human agency? What happens to the “unfit”?"
@Kevin_McKernan @jikkyleaks @brownstoneinst @jstylman @Honest_Medicine @sonia_elijah @profnfenton
https://substacktools.com/sharex/MJw432kH
@Elon @Grok @Jikkyleaks This is like an advertisement for why complex systems need closed loop feed back corrective information to function and to avoid tragedy. I think this logic can be applied across the board on any complex system or endeavor. So while you trapped @Grok stripped him down naked and walked him to the pitchers mound during a MLB post season game what you really did was provide a good lesson to folks who work in complex systems. This post is perfect in that it backs up what I already knew. Very good post IMO thank you !
Sonntag, 8. März 2026, ab 17 Uhr live auf http://kontrafunk.radio, YouTube und X!
Now that the regime's official TV broadcasting has been destroyed, BBC, CNN, and NY Times remain its main mouthpieces.